Now, in a unique approach, Caritas is helping communities make their own plans on how to be better able to resist future natural disasters by building back better from Haiyan.

Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment Process

Participatory Disaster Risk Assessment Process is a process where a community create a ‘risk map’ – a map to saving lives in the Philippines – that identifies the threats and the capacity of individual households to rebuild their lives. Once the map is created, then gaps in the community can be identified and met.

Whether it’s housing, livelihoods, clean water, healthcare, the environment, government policies, Caritas delivers results set by those who have the greatest understanding of their circumstances, the affected communities themselves.

Caritas Internationalis is the global confederation of 164 Catholic organisations working on behalf of the poor. It is the arm through which the Church delivers its moral mission to help the most vulnerable and excluded people, whatever their religion or race.